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Critical Praise

“Jessica O’Dwyer gives us a story we’ve never heard before—one that manages to look with compassion and authenticity and grip-your-chair dramatic tension at the subjects of infertility, marriage, adoption, and most of all, motherhood. She takes us from the world of comfortable middle-class life to the mysterious, sometimes dark and sometimes beautiful and largely unknown territory of Guatemala, and gives a kind of heroine no reader is likely to have met on the page, until now: a mother willing to do anything to save her child. You will not put this book down until you’ve finished, and once you have, you will not forget it.”

— Joyce Maynard, best-selling author of The Best of Us

“Pain, loss, and love are showcased side-by-side, highlighting how motherly love goes beyond social status, country, and family background.”

—Rossana Pérez, editor of Flight to Freedom: The Story of Central American Refugees

“Jessica gives a very clear and knowledgeable panorama of Guatemala, from its colonial roots to today’s society pervaded with racism, classism, and an inoperative government. At the same time, she describes the sublime, real, and extremely hard truth of adoption. I could relate to each line as a Guatemalan and as an adoptive mom.”

—Cynthia M. Guerra, National Director of Education at the Ombudsman Office in Guatemala; human rights activist and educator

“At its heart, Mother Mother is a story of family, relationships, the bonds of blood and beyond. As O’Dwyer herself writes, ‘Love is an action, not a concept.’”

— Janine Kovac, author of Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home